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Ostryocarpus
Sign in to saveOstryocarpus is genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. The name comes from ostryo- (Gk.: shell) and carpos (Gk.: fruit), referring to the shell-like pods.
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It sits within the topics Fabaceae genera, Flora of the Afrotropical realm and Millettieae.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- MO, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Gabon, Tanzania, Mozambique
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Ostryocarpus is genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. The name comes from ostryo- (Gk.: shell) and carpos (Gk.: fruit), referring to the shell-like pods.
The first specimens were collected by Theodore Vogel in 1851 on the Niger Expedition to West Africa. It was described by Sir Joseph Hooker. It is related to the genus Lonchocarpus and is distinguished from it by its diadelphous stamens and shell-like pod.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostryocarpus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.